The winners in the 2005 UAW Alabama-Mississippi
Area Women’s Council Essay contest were recently announced. For
the past several years the Council has sponsored this essay contest to
assist high school students in their quest for college money and to provide
a venue for them to learn more about labor.
This year’s topics for the contest were “Why we still need
Unions” or “Pay Equity, Does it Exist?”. A number of
excellent essays were submitted with the judges being two college professors.
The winners are:

From their inception, working men and women’s unions have fought
to establish the principle of free public education as a right, not a
privilege. It is an honor to be part of this effort to further the education
of young men and women in Alabama and Mississippi.